CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An unemployed 22-year-old Cleveland woman wanted for child endangering -- after leaving her five young children home alone in a filthy house with no working refrigerator -- turned herself into police Saturday afternoon.

Wakiha Fayne is charged with five counts of child endangering and is being held in the city jail.

The three boys and two girls -- ages 6, 3, 2 and 14-month-old twins -- were turned over to Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services on Friday after they were examined at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital.

Police were called to Fayne's East 46th Street home Friday after a social worker stopped to check on housing for the family.

According to a Cleveland police report, the home was bug infested, had feces smeared in the bathroom and food and debris scattered on the floor. The children also had bed bug bites.

"Mommy went to the store," the 6-year-old told police, according to the report.

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